Steve down :-(

On the way home from work, new front tyre, trying to take it easy. A bit
too much lean [and speed] on a roundabout and lowsided. Arse. First
self-induced accident in 4 years. I'm VERY glad I wear armoured leathers,
and that the damage wasn't worse. That said new plastics can cost an arm
and a leg (so I'm told), does anyone have any cunning ways to get cheap
plastics?

http://www.hextent.co.uk/crash/

 

I'm glad you're OK Steve but that crash looks very expensive. If you
decided to replace with new it could cost the best part of a grand. I
would just clean up the bits and then change the worse items next
spring.

 

Sorry to hear that.

BUT. To be fair, there isn't that much damage, is there. I doubt it
would have hurt that much in jeans and a paddock jacket.

Like Gower says, leave it. A bike should wear the patina from its life
with pride.

Or go to http://www.raceproducts.co.uk/ and crash it on a track as well.

 

Fair point, although by the looks of my leathers, they absorbed a fair
amount of abrasion from my hip/thigh, shoulder and (armoured) elbow areas.
My hip is starting to hurt quite badly, so I think that it must have taken a
fair impact.

I shall do as you suggest (that will please my wife too, as I don't think
she'd take kindly to me spending a load on new plastics


Cheers Ben

 

That's one of the reasons I go naked.

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked